Wednesday, September 3, 2008

The massively open online course "Connectivism and Connected Knowledge" is about to launch and people from around the world have already introduced themselves on the course site. Maybe I shouldn't be so surprised to see such interest from educators all around the planet, but I can't help but feel part of a larger community in watching as the introductions continue.

In order to give folks some idea of how global participation is expected to be, I created a quick Google Map for CCK08, where participants can drop a pin and add their names. The technology allows for the posting of HTML content including photos, but let's take it one step at a time...

The instructions for adding yourself to the map are quite simple and appear below:

Hi again, funny enough my attempted pin number was 201 as well. Rodd, would you mind adding a pin for me, too, please? I am in Turku, Finland (south-western coast). Thank you! I seem have got obsessed with having my presence on the map - lol!

Hi Roddthank you. At a first time I didn't find my pin yet.Then I have discovered that the pins don't appear in the same map. On the left there is a list of people: at the moment there 4 pages of people. Only the one listed are in the map.Once selected page 3 I found myself (I found 4 pins for myself: 3 inserted by me and 1 by you).OK. Now I have my pin, only one, with the shape of a golfer, as I am.

Hi, I made the same discovery as Pierfranco before reading these comments :) I had about 5 pins plus the one you, Rodd, had kindly added for me on page 3!! Whenever I reopened the map I always got to page 1, where obviously I didn't find myself. So finally I only have my one pin on page 3 now. I'm wondering whether there is a way to see all the pins from all the different pages on one map to get the full picture of the whereabouts of the participants?? Or maybe the system only allows a certain number (ie. the number of people on the list on each page) to be shown at once.Anyway, thank you ever so much Rodd and sorry to have been a nuisance. The map is a great idea!

Thanks Rodd, terrific instructions - very clear and easy to follow. For some reason i thought i should be able to work out how to do it without following the instructions at first, but i completely had no idea.

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